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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ColonelHardisson" data-source="post: 2292468" data-attributes="member: 363">I think the thing to remember, which is very important, is that the Istari are Maiar put into the flesh of men, making them vulnerable to the same weaknesses of men - including the lust for the power offered by the Ring. That's how the Ring, but not Sauron, directly, would get power over them. It seems more likely, according to everything I've read in the trilogy and Silmarillion, that an Istari would be able to wield the Ring just as a powerful Man or Elf would, and could even challenge Sauron. That's what Sauron feared - that someone would find the Ring and wield it against him. It's one of the reasons he was so quick to jump the gun and attack Gondor when Aragorn confronted him in the palantir.Plus, remember, Bombadil could freely handle the Ring, and if anyone was a Maia (if you discount the possibility he was Eru himself), he was one, and was unfettered by the flesh of men.</blockquote>